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  Smashing Pumpkins Reveal New Band Member

  May 11, 2010 – Meet the newest addition to Billy Corgan's new version of Smashing Pumpkins: bassist Nicole Fiorentino, a veteran of bands like Veruca Salt, Spinerette, and Twilight Sleep. Fiorentino replaces bassist Ginger Pooley -- who replaced Melissa Auf der Maur, who replaced D'Arcy Wretzky, the band's original low-ender. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Rock 'Tonight Show'

  April 21, 2010 – Smashing Pumpkins played material off their 44-song boxset Teargarden by Kaleidyscope for the first time live on national television Tuesday night. Frontman Billy Corgan recruited a nine-member vocal group to back the band. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Play Intimate L.A. Show

  April 20, 2010 – The line that snaked down the sidewalk of Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon contained a surprising variety of Smashing Pumpkins T-shirts, from the early '90s Gish era to 2007's Zeitgeist. The occasion was Record Store Day, and the band was treating the first 250 fans that pre-ordered their new EP Teargarden in Kaleidyscope, Volume 1: Songs for a Sailor to an intimate afternoon set at Space 15 Twenty, an open-air c …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  March 13, 2010 – This week MGMT leaked a new song, the Strokes confirmed a September album release, and SPIN remembered the Notorious B.I.G. 13 years after his murder. …
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  Audition to Join the Smashing Pumpkins!

  March 9, 2010 – Another day, another lineup change with the Smashing Pumpkins -- but this time YOU could end up joining the ranks of the alt-rock band! Billy Corgan announced today that bassist Ginger Pooley -- who replaced Melissa Auf der Maur when the Pumpkins "reunited" in 2007 -- has left the band to "to raise her new baby with her husband." So, The Bald One is launching a search for a new bassist the same way he found 20-year-old drummer Mike Byr …
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  REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins' New Single

  March 2, 2010 – Billy Corgan's winning streak has come to an end. Corgan just released the third single from Smashing Pumpkins' upcoming 44-song album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, and unlike the two tracks before it -- "A Song for a Son" and "Widow Wake My Mind" -- "A Stitch in Time" is, well, total snoreville... zzzzzzzzz. It's an acoustic guitar-driven tune with layers of synth melodies, sitar riffs, and gliding electric guitar. …
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  REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins Release New Song

  January 19, 2010 – Billy Corgan has released the second song from the Smashing Pumpkins' new 44-track project, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, and like its predecessor, "Widow Wake My Mind" is a very pleasant surprise. Read: It's doesn't suck... …
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  Billy Corgan's New Label to Release Germs Songs

  January 7, 2010 – Smashing Pumpkins head honcho Billy Corgan -- who's already busy with new Pumpkins material, a holistic lifestyle blog, and his romance with pop singer Jessica Simpson -- plans to launch a new record label that will release new material from trailblazing '70s L.A. …
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  Billy Corgan: Pumpkins Split a "Mistake"

  December 15, 2009 – File this one under "we could've told you that." In a recent interview with Spinner about the Smashing Pumpkins' release plans for their 44-track album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, frontman Billy Corgan admitted that breaking up the band's original lineup in 2000 "was a mistake." The alt-rock vet explained that the band's break, which lasted until he reformed with a new lineup in 2006, "broke trust with the audience." Yet he defended h …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  December 11, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! (Obligatory Self-Promotion: ...while you're at it, be sure to follow @SPINmagazine!) This week's winners: Who: The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan (@Billy) Why You Should Follow: Feeling lost and confused? Uninspired? Down in the dumps? …
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